1860: Burleigh’s recently back from the 1860 Republican convention in Chicago, and he can’t wait to tell his brother all about the celebrations back on the farm in Contoocook:

From: Letters of Burleigh K. Jones

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SOURCE = Letters of Burleigh K. Jones @ Hopkinton Historical Society

6 March 1858

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